Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-03-13
THE COLToN FAIR.
A Grand. Showing by the
Eruit-GrOwerS.
4 TRIUNpHAL EXHIBITION.
what Was Seen at Cotton Of San
Bsrnardino County Fruits.
Fine Display.

Only ten days ago tho stirring cit-
xsps of Celton determined to make .
fr,a exhibition of the fruits and other
Of San Bernardino county.
TAs abandonment Of tue proposed citrus
f.;r at Riverside was considered nota.
Ia injury to the fruit.growers of the
I,.urty. after the fair had been an
.ounceA to the public; and when the
v;deawake Coltonites proposed to have
: itr,v fair for the county ofs San ber-
.wdino the fruit.growers from Hermosa
10 RedTands, and from Riverside to
Highlands joined in with right good
vill Husts hall was engaged and fitted
nm IN tiue style for the occasion. There
vss An enthusia asm about the movement
chat carried it along rapidly and ire
s;stibly TO . superb success, which cul'
minated on Friday and Saturday IN one
AZ the finest exhibitions of citrus fruit
Hhst human eve ever looked upon.
Men, women and children WORKED
early. worked hard and worked late and
IN one weeks time from the commence.
uent Of active operations the beautiful
- vas open to the public in blaze OF
elorv. On Friday morning at ii o'clock
strsins Of music broke forth from Q
hover in front of the hall OF beauty and
ths people from every point OF the com
peas poured in and feasted their eyes
spou tho lovely display. The hall was
tostefully and elaborated. .ornamented
vikh fsstoons of ivy and waving palms,
The symbol of victory far the first citrus
fnir cf Cotton, of which the people there
nav well be proud. To say that
Colonel Rotchkiss, Peacock, OF the
,Seui. Tropic, DR.. Fox, Archibald, Alex
ADDER Brotheas, Bambill. DR.. Spresher,
Kenniston. DR.. Pearson, II L Martin,
DR.. Thompson, Colonel Tolles, Tom
williams, L. G. Haight, A. Z. Harrison,
Frank Huxley, A. ). Fox, G. b. Paine,
Bailey, Castle, Davenport, Crafts and
other notable workers looked elated,
proud and lofty is true. In fact, some
Of them appeared SO tall that, 10 a
stranger, they seemed as men when hrst
viewed by the man whose blind eyes
wore opened by the Lord, and exclaimed
With 10Y, II see men as trees walking
Mrs. NJ. l.. Ferguson and many other
ladies of Cotton, San Bernardino and
surroundipg Gowns were. .heroines in the
vhole affair and deserve special praise.
At the west side of the hall they had
wrought the words "East San Bsrnar'
dino Valley" with oranges for letters set
IN IN Akergreen panel, and the word
"Welcuqe" in evergreen on the north
end. Beautiful branches of olive trees
with thu pretty leaves OF silver and
sreen,, through which peeped out the
dark fcA clusters of this historic fruit,
were displayed on all sides. To say tina,
Cotton Terrace made one..of the choicest
displays in the world is only justice t.
that citrus locality. Old San Bernar
dino from her immense crop made
glorious display; that was followed righ'
scftsr by Lugonia, Redlands, Grafton
Hishlands. Ucaipa, Valley View, Sar
sBernardino and the town OF Cotton
Hermosa, also. came in with fine dis
,play. as we'll as East and South Cotton
A display that attracted much atten
ton was sent from San Fernando by Mr.
II. w, Griswold. This consisted oi
. some of the finest lines and lemons
ever grown in any country, and were
notable for being the first citrus exhibit
3 sent out to any fair from that beautiful
place. Expert fruit-dealers and growers
declared it to be the finest qualify they
had ever seen. Hereafter San Fernando
will stand in the front rank on citrus
fruits and olives.
A very pleasant and surprising feature
was a fine exhibition from K. j.
Northam, of Anaheim. 1t consisted OF q
most beautiful and bountiful display Of
navel and Seeding oranges and some
fine lemsns that were greatly admired
Some tenderfset inquired of the repre-
sentative of the HERALD if oranges evel
frozs in Anaheim, and was promptly
Informed that such calamity never
occurred in that town. Whoever repre-
scented that oranges ever frozs in ths
warm, dry soil of Anaheim is either
knAvs or fool.
Exhibitors from the Old Mission Of
Old San Bernardino report that they
have sold their large fine crop to River
side buyers and that yesterday the
Riversiders were packing and shipping
the fruit and marking it Riverside
oranges" ON the ground that they were
Yurchased and shipped by Riverside
dealers. They also state that the exhib'
it Of oranges from Riverside at the fair
was bought in Old San Bernardino, and
that the oranges sent from Riverside
astually were returned to that city
without being opened. This is new
feature in citrus fruit exhibitions and
10 certainly ingenious and handy.
The Cotton Semi. Tropic of yesterday
has the following summary of the ex
hibits, which is quite complete, but, oi
course, in a crowd which constantly pre-
vailed in the hall it was difficult to obtair
. memorandum of everything:
The first exhibit to be seen OF
entering the hall, on the center
table, was that from DR.. w. h
Fox's prize forty.acre orchard OIL
the Terrace, and right well did the frui
exhibited back up the assertion an,
claim Of the Cotton land and water com
pany that it was, in every way and par
ticular, equal to any tract in the worl'
in the production OF citrus fruits. Th
exhibit;consisted of Washington Navel
Mediterranean Sweet, Wilson's Best
Konah and paper rind, st. Michael's
Sweet rind lemons, lines, canned peaches
white heath and lemon cling, Jules 10
quats, preserved aprico.s, blackberriel
and strawberries, loquats whole ant
seeded, ounces. figs picked and pre-
served, green, ripe and picked olives.
Next to DR.. w. K. Fox's exhibit came
that of Mr.. A. s. Fox, which honorably
held it's own against all competitors. II
osnsisted of pyramid of navel oranges
and lemons, two large clusters OF Medi
tesranean Sweet oranges, of twelve and
fifteen oranges respectively, pyramid
of Mediterranean Sweet and Seeding or.
anges, also several samples of canned
goods in glasses.
Next to A. s. Fox came the exhibit of
l. M. Archibald, which consisted of
Malta Rlood WASHINGTON Nayels. ST